1690) When we hear from someone we love and are told they are going through difficult times, we often feel the burden. This empathy doesn’t change the situation for that person, but it helps lighten the load they are carrying.

It is a relief to talk about difficulties with the right people. It’s like you throw your troubled feelings to them and they catch some of them, taking on some of your angst.

1 Peter 5:7 tells us to cast our anxieties to God. This would be like what I just described. We “cast” them by talking about them with God. This conversation can be a onetime thing or it can be one that takes place over and over and over again. In doing this, it’s like we tossed our troubled feelings to God and he feels them with you.

It blows my mind that God would want to shoulder my difficulties and sorrows and yet, he does.